President Donald Trump said Thursday that the ruling by a court to ban French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen from running for office was part of a “witch hunt” to keep her out of power.
In a Truth Social post, Trump compared the ruling against Le Pen to the Russian collusion investigation that marred much of his first term in office. A court this week ruled that Le Pen and other members of the National Rally Party were guilty of embezzlement and banned the populist political figure from seeking office for five years.
“The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison,” Trump posted before referencing the discredited Trump-Russian narrative.
“It is the same ‘playbook’ that was used against me by a group of…
